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Revolutionary Soldiers

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Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
August
Year
1843
Copyright
Public Domain
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Among ihe tliings tíial were said nnd done on he 17th of last monlh, in Boston, tvas a speech that was made by the 'President of America, John Tyler,' to the soldiers of ihe war of the rerolution. 1 Venerable mm - The gratitude of seventeen millions of freemeti - the beating hcarts of this great nation are now yours," &c. Lc. k.c. Whato libel upon Ihis nation, and for the President of this great nation, to be guilty of such a gross falsehood, as to declare our nation contained 6eventeen millions of freemen. Or had he become so excited witli the liberty of Massacbusetts, ihat he had forgotten, for a moment, that wc have three millions ofrícan citizens that are sighing for the bondog that those venerable héroes allowed ihèmselvqs to be led to the cannon's mouth to get c!ear frora? Ifhe had forgotten, even while he had one holding a shade over his eycs, that slavery existedin oneportion of America,he sliould not - for, if report speaL,a jcorrectly, some oí the bondsmen are very nearly allied to him. What a fine figure he must have been, talking to those oíd men aboot fighíing for freedom, with a sla ve holding a sbade over liiml! Snppose eomo Eastern despot hod come into Massachusatts to teach freedom to our citizene, with a slave to wait upon liim. - With what indignation wonld he have been irented! He would have been scout ed out of Boston,ye.c, and out of Araerica, for the South would not lilee to be insulted - for they understand what freedom means, if they do not give it to all their citizens. And Í3 it not as much an insult to ns, for a man who is at tfie hcad of this pretended f ree nation. to come here with a slave to wait. upon him, to stir up the Jire of indignation against despotism in the minds of the people of New England?

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Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News